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Located all around Yuanyang Old Town, Yunnan Province,those rice fields have been carved on the Mountain by the Hani people for centuries. It is a perfect example of symbiosis in nature. The water evaporates from the rice terrace to form clouds; the clouds give rain, which is collected and trapped by the forests on the mountains. The water from the rain and from mountain springs flow down to the rice terraces and the whole cycle repeats itself perpetually. During the winter to early spring season, the entire field is irrigated with spring water from the forest above to rejuvenate and prepare for the next growing season.The Hani people have repeated this for more than a thousand years. There is only one harvest per year for the Yuanyang Rice Terrace; planting occurs from March to October/November every year.
Yuanyang Rice Terraces are, as mentioned the wonderland of tourists, a paradise of painting clubs and photographers! With their amazing landscape, unique shapes, and ethnic customs and culture deposit behind themselves, the scenic areas of Yuanyang Rice Terraces are the excellent places you must take your cameras to.
Major Areas of Terraced Rice Fields In Yuanyang：
-Tiger Mouth Scenic Area
Located in the south (23km) of Yuanyang Old Town (Xinjiezhen), the Tiger Mouth Area mainly consists of Mengpin Village, Dongfu Village, Amengkong Village, Baoshan Village and etc.. The area covers 400 ha. terraced rice fields. The fields here are known as the most breathtaking fields of their kinds in Yuanyang area. Some viewing areas were built for enjoying and photoing the fields. The sunrise and sea of clouds in Tiger Mouth (Laohuzui) are also very beautiful, they enjoy the reputation as the terraced fields themselves. And being many Yi ethnic people live in the villages of this area, the area has become a base for studying Yi culture and customs.
-Duoyishu Scenic Area
Look like a big gulf, Duoyishu Scenic Area is located in east of Yuanyang County, about 53 km from the county seat and 23 km from Xinjiezhen. Covered Duoyishu Village, Aicun Village, Dawa Village and some other 10 ethnic villages, this area is the optimum place to view the blue terraced fields (about 700 ha.), sea of clouds, sunrise, sunset and the unique Hani and Yi people’s mushroom-shaped houses. Duoyishu was once the major shooting places of the famous films — The Story of Yunnan (1993) and Cherries (2007). It is a paradise of shutterbugs who enjoy taking the pictures of the beautiful sunrise.
-Bada Scenic Area
Bada Scenic Area is situated in 44km south of Yuanyang County, 14 km from Xinjiezhen. It has more than 900 ha. terraced rice fields including Qingkou Village, Quanfu Village, Zhulu Village and some other villages. From the foot to the top of the mounain, the terraced fields can be counted more than 3,900 steps. The Bada terraced rice fields are bravura, spectacular and stereoscopic, look beautiful in lines.
Yuanyang is also interesting for its intense minorities’ life. You can find a Hani and Yi colorful market each day, based on the Chinese calendar. Hani and Yi minorities aslo still wear their colorful traditional clothes.
The banquet at the street of Hani Minorities
Every year after the autumn harvest comes the most important festival for Hani people, the Hani New Year, or Angmatu in local language. On the day, people, male and female, ole and young, are all dressed up in their holiday bests. Young men beat the wooden drum hung on the wooden frame erected in the stockade in turn. The farther the melodious rhythm of gongs and drums carries, the more prosperous and wealthier the stockade will be. Also, each stockade will hold a big banquet in the center of the stockade. People have fun together and drink in turn. As the banquet is held in the center of the main street, it is called the Street Center Banquet. It is also named Long Street Banquet for the tables are laid end to end along the street like a long dragon. The Long Street Banquet is an epitome of the unique culture of Hani people. It displays to the full cultural characteristics of Hani people in holiday foods, customs and rituals, songs and dances, as well as costumes, etc.
The tables shall be laid end to end without a gap. The first and last desks are respectively called “the dragon head” and “the dragon tail”. 16 large pots are set up in the street to cook local delicacies. 960 people at 240 tables taste national delicacies and bask in the profound atmosphere of the Long Street Banquet. At the ceremony to commence the banquet, there will be drummers in gala dress performing around the stage.
Climate：The annual average temperature is 16.4 degree Celsius, and 1407 mm of yearly average precipitation.
